Democracy's lawyer
Subtitle: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest
By: J. Roderick Heller III.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807135884
Subjects: Grundy, Felix, -- 1777-1840; Jackson, Andrew, -- 1767-1845 -- Friends and associates; United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Lawyers -- Southwest, Old -- Biography; Attorneys general -- United States -- Biography; Southwest, Old -- Biography; Tennessee -- Biography; Kentucky -- Biography; United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Frontier roots; title: The Great Road; title: The dark and bloody ground; title: Education on the frontier; title: pt. 2. Kentucky; title: Felix Grundy, Esquire; title: Political beginnings; title: Circuit court reform; title: Grundy and Clay; title: Chief justice; title: Greenville Springs; title: pt. 3. Tennessee; title: Tennessee and Congress; title: War hawk; title: Congress at war; title: Return to Nashville; title: Criminal lawyer; title: The panic of 1819; title: Legislative leadership; title: pt. 4. Jacksonian; title: Andrew Jackson for president; title: Election to the Senate; title: Jacksonian senator; title: Nullification; title: Reelection; title: Land and slavery; title: Battles with the Whigs; title: Attorney General; title: Twilight; title: Epilogue.